Delhi Police Special Cell held key member of Malda FICN racket
New Delhi, April 18
The Delhi Police Special Cell arrested a member of West Bengal syndicate of FICN (Fake Indian currency notes) from New Delhi. The accused allegedly smuggled FICN from Bangladesh.
The accused was identified as Abdul Rahim Ayesh Sekh (29), Sukpara of Malda West Bengal.
DCP (Special Cell), Sanjeev Kumar Yadav stated that Abdul Rahim is a member of Malda, West Bengal based FICN syndicate and is indulged in smuggling of FICN from Bangladesh for long time.
The special cell stated that he had visited Bangladesh several times to procure the FICN. He was about to deliver the FICN to one of his contacts based in Delhi. The agency seized fake Indian Currency Notes of the face value of Rs.eight lakhs from his possession.
The special cell was getting timely inputs
regarding Malda, (West Bengal) based syndicates, involved in smuggling of FICNs printed in foreign country, through Indo-Bangladesh border and circulation of same in Delhi and the adjoining states. The special cell teams had begun surveillance on the network's in both Delhi and Malda.
The officials added that on April 16, the agency received specific input that member of the syndicate, Abdul Rahim will be reaching near Anand Vihar Railway station, Delhi to deliver the huge consignment of Fake Indian Currency Notes to his Delhi based contact.
The agency laid a trap near the Anand Vihar Railway station. At about 5.30 PM, the team spotted a person standing and waiting for someone near exit gate of Anand Vihar Raiway station, on the main road proceeding towards Dilshad Garden from Anand Vihar. The agency arrested Abdul Rahim from the spot.
Elaborating more on the accused, the special cell stated that Abdul Rahim studied upto 7th standard when he dropped his studies and started working as labour in the fields and farms of his village. In 2016, he started selling ladies suits at his shop-cum-home, which is still going on. He used to visit Bangladesh to purchase these clothses. His wife used to look after the shop/ladies cloth business in his absence.
To earn more money, he simultaneously started working as mason at different construction sites. About three years back in 2018, while working at the house of Nasruddin, he allegedly got the offer from Nasruddin to deliver fake Indian currency notes for a good amount of money. Nasruddin told him that this is the easiest way of earning a good sum of money and he would earn Rs. 3000/- per delivery. Abdul Rahim agreed and started working for Nasruddin.
The officials added that Nasruddin used to collect the Fake Indian Currency Notes from FICN smugglers/suppliers based near Indo-Bangladesh border, who smuggled the FICN from Bangladesh through cross-border smugglers. After sometimes, Abdul Rahim also accompanied Nasruddin to collect the FICN from the Indo-Bangladesh border based suppliers. They both collected several consignments of FICN from there and further supplied to their associates based in different parts of India during past three years. For past some months Abdul Rahim was getting Rs. One lakh of FICN as his share on delivery of Rs. eight lakhs or more to their different associates.
The officials further said that during his visit to Bangladesh, Abdul Rahim also came in contact with one Tiku, who used to supply the FICN into Indian side through his operatives by crossing over the Indo-Bangladesh border. Abdul Rahim developed friendship with him and started smuggling the FICN from Tiku from Bangladesh.
During the lock down period Nasruddin, Abdul Rahim and the members of their network could not smuggle the FICN but after the lockdown was over, Abdul Rahim and Nasruddin had collected huge amount of FICN and supplied to their different contacts with the help of their sub-contacts/operatives in Bihar, UP and other parts of India.
The special cell is further investigating the case.
